A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Friday, October 24, 2098, with a magnitude of 0.0056. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
This minor eclipse is the first solar eclipse of Saros cycle 164. It is the shallowest solar eclipse of the 21st century; at best, in a remote location within the Southern Ocean the moon will block out 0.56% of the sun's diameter with the sun barely above the horizon. Gamma is equal to −1.5407, which is also farther from zero than any other solar eclipse in the century. The eclipse is not listed by some sources. There will not be a shallower partial eclipse until August 23, 2883.
Eclipse details Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
+October 24, 2098 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2098 October 24 at 10:25:24.3 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2098 October 24 at 10:36:10.8 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2098 October 24 at 10:46:29.2 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2098 October 24 at 10:52:05.9 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2098 October 24 at 11:56:02.8 UTC
+October 24, 2098 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.00568 Eclipse Obscuration 0.00051 Gamma −1.54072 Sun Right Ascension 13h57m42.1s Sun Declination -12°01'06.6" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'04.5" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8" Moon Right Ascension 13h55m00.2s Moon Declination -13°22'41.3" Moon Semi-Diameter 16'04.0" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°58'57.8" ΔT 122.4 s
Eclipse season
This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
+ Eclipse season of September–October 2098 September 25Descending node (new moon) October 10Ascending node (full moon) October 24Descending node (new moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 126 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 138 Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 164
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2098 A partial solar eclipse on April 1. A total lunar eclipse on April 15. A partial solar eclipse on September 25. A total lunar eclipse on October 10. A partial solar eclipse on October 24.
Solar Saros 164 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 4, 2116
Solar eclipses of 2094–2098
Saros 164 This eclipse is a part of Saros series 164, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 80 events. The series will start with a partial solar eclipse on October 24, 2098. It contains total eclipses from June 1, 2459 through June 20, 3090; hybrid eclipses from July 1, 3108 through August 3, 3162; and annular eclipses from August 13, 3180 through September 4, 3216. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on March 10, 3523. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 26 at 6 minutes, 30 seconds on July 25, 2549, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 63 at 1 minutes, 21 seconds on September 4, 3216. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.
Series members 1–6 occur between 2098 and 2200:123October 24, 2098November 4, 2116November 16, 2134456November 26, 2152December 7, 2170December 18, 2188<noinclude>
Metonic series
Tritos series
References
External links http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2051/SE2098Oct24P.GIF